Midnight Voices
THE PETE ATKIN WEB FORUM   RSS
Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register.
This page loaded: 02.05.25 at 04:30 UK time
 PA
HOME		 Pete Atkin home page
MV Home | Short | Help | Search | Login | Register | Shop | PA Home
Midnight Voices « Johann Hari and Clive James »
   Midnight Voices
   Pete Atkin
   Words
   Johann Hari and Clive James		 « Previous thread | Next thread »
Pages: 1   Start of Thread | Latest Post Reply | Notify of replies | Send Thread | Print
   Author  Thread: Johann Hari and Clive James  (Read 4862 times)
Mike Walters
MV Fixture
****






Posts: 127
Johann Hari and Clive James
« : 02.06.08 at 15:26 »		 Quote
Interesting piece by Johann Hari in today's Independent in which he nominates Clive James as the first poet laureate of a supposed new age of poetic accessibility.  
 
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-as-life-flies-on-dont-let-poetry-pass-you-by-838214.html
    https://peteatkin.com/forum?board=Words&action=display&num=1212416766&start=0#0   copy 
Jan
MV Fellow
*****






Posts: 312
Re: Johann Hari and Clive James
« Reply #1: 05.06.08 at 18:02 »		 Quote
That's a very felicitous quotation at the end! I don't remember anyone on MV accrediting it to Emerson. (I think T.S. Eliot was mentioned)
 
And its a great idea to have Clive James as Poet Laureate!
Jan
    https://peteatkin.com/forum?board=Words&action=display&num=1212416766&start=1#1   copy 
Kevin Cryan
MV Fellow
*****


I love Midnight Voices!



Posts: 1144
Re: Johann Hari and Clive James
« Reply #2: 05.06.08 at 21:05 »		 Quote
You are quite right, Jan. in thinking that Hari has misattributed the quotation. It actually  comes from section 5 of The Dry Salvages,  which is No 3  of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets .
 
Kevin Cryan.
 
    https://peteatkin.com/forum?board=Words&action=display&num=1212416766&start=2#2   copy 
Jan
MV Fellow
*****






Posts: 312
Re: Johann Hari and Clive James
« Reply #3: 05.06.08 at 22:19 »		 Quote
Thanks Kevin! I didn't think we would have missed that one.
Jan
« Last Edit: 05.06.08 at 22:36 by Jan »     https://peteatkin.com/forum?board=Words&action=display&num=1212416766&start=3#3   copy 
Murray McGlew
MV Feature
***


I love Midnight Voices!



Posts: 55
Re: Johann Hari and Clive James
« Reply #4: 11.06.08 at 10:17 »		 Quote
I believe Clive doesn't drink much these days; can I have the sherry?
 
Seriously, it's a great idea. As Johann Hari points out, it's Clive's enthusiasm that gets us in. Any article of his praising a poet makes me want to track down some of the poet's output and read it. I like Clive's poems too mind you.
    https://peteatkin.com/forum?board=Words&action=display&num=1212416766&start=4#4   copy 
Pages: 1    Start of Thread | Latest Post Reply | Notify of replies | Send Thread | Print
Return to Top « Previous thread | Next thread »
MV Home | Short | Help | Search | Login | Register | Shop | PA Home
Midnight Voices is not responsible for comments made by its members. All opinions expressed are entirely those of their authors.
Midnight Voices » Powered by YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.3.1!
YaBB © 2000-2003. All Rights Reserved.